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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
The Islanders ofTrisian d'acuDha.

Vi ~
The islanders of Tristan d Acunha,
although isolated in the South At
lantic, have received the distinction
of having blue book devoted &c
them and their concerns. According
to the latest report there are now
on the island nineteen families, COM
prising ninety-seven souls-namely;
Aged men, 3; aged women, 5; men
20 years of age and over, IL; boys
from IA to 20 years of age, 9; married
women, 3; widows with large fam
ilies), 16; girls over IA years of age,
20; children under IA years of age,
30 of both sexes; total 81. Some
time since they sustained disastrous
loss, the whaleboat in which fifteen
of their men put to sea to intercept
a passing vessel being lost and every
one being drowned. Reduced in
number in this way, they have been
put to great straits. A plague Of
rats has also invaded the island and
done great destruction to the potato
crop. The vermin landed from a
shipwrecked vessel which came
ashore on the coast. The govern.
ment has considered the question Of
conveying the islanders to the Cape
or Australia, but in the meantime
they have contented themselves with
instructing a ship of war to pay an
annual visit to the island. The isl.
anders have a rule after the republi-
can fashion, but they regard them
selves as under the English crown
Peter w. Green, who was ship
wrecked on the island about fifty
years ago, is at the head of the com
munity.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
THE REWARDS OF JOURNALISM.

An insumountable objection to
journalism, as to every order of COM
position, is that it is not progressive,
financially. The novice, if accepted
at all, will be as well paid, consider
ing his liability to added responsible
ities-wife, children and the rest-as
the man of ripe experience and ma
turity; indeed, he will be better
paid. The bulk of journalists oflong
experience, even in New York, where
their compensation is higher than
anywhere else, do not receive $250O
annually. How far will that go
toward supporting family? Most
of them are exhausted after fifteen
years or SO of continuous service,
and their earning capacity is in dan
err of retrograding. When fairly
worn out what is their prospect?
They are privileged to die at their
own expense. Their long service has
untitled them for any other business,
and their circumstances are desper-
ate indeed. They have been unable
to save anything; they are not pen
stoned; they have broken health and
poverty for reward. Who knows of
salaried journalist who has gained
even the most modest independence
by pursuit of his profession? The
position, too, is always precarious;
he may lose it at any time from no
fault Of his own. His destiny is in
the hands of the managing editor, or
any controlling stockholder, who may
object to the color OF his eyes, or the
curve of his nose and discharge him
therefor. The press may be free
its liberty frequently runs into
license-but he is often little less
than serf. The history OF journal
ism is marked by the graves of jour
nalists, dead from anxiety, annoyance
and overwork by or before middle
age. Nevertheless, journalism is the
least unremunerative and unsatisfac-
tory of any form of manuscript max
ing. Outside writing is altogether
worse, and cannot be long followed
by persons averse to mourning obi
cations or cherishipg a prejudice in
favor of living.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
THE CHRONIo DEADMEAD.

l used to travel free;
The steamboais here and there,
And railroads everywhere,
Were glad 10 carry mo.
No matter how / went,
never paid cont,
A pass always had;
At times II was q equeeeeI
And then had to tease
And make officials sadi
But cheek would still ptoVatls
And passes told the tale.
Ny pass ! gladly showed
When Tickets was the erys
And quito as big was l
AZ " l owned the road.
All those, at least for me,
Were hAlcyon days, you sees
All that Is changed, alsSl
A most d,spotio law,
The worst ever saw,
Depriyes me Of my pass,
Aud must jsin, they gay,
The mob OF slaves who pay.
A deadhead old and tough
Must ride, If ever, Tree;
90 my revenge shall be
lhlng severely tou,h;
pot ne mere sill roam,
But stay right here az homo.
SSpa Mortlum Ia NcW fork ouE'
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

1 love this ocean pictures pale reserve;
Notints unnatural OF purpli ggrain,
Assure, or opal, mar the rough gray main
The sweep, the swing, the lorg, froth churn-
ing curve,
This shoreWard working and con fused sWeryo
OF following WAter-white blooms wear
such stain.
All dashed and muddied with the April
rain.
No poor ambition did the painter nervel
Well that no labored ship OF suuburst broke
Tho strong monotony of that sky and su ge.
Leave, only leave, the line Of stormy smoke.
Tho sea birds dashed upon the nearest
verge
Grave in its truth this ocean peace shall be
The type for US Of Homer's harvestless sea.
london AthenRuRt.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
to strike down 1000 Of the inhabitants,

70 6tr1ke down DOVU OF tnt InHtDItAht4,
Of whom 1000 died in q few hours. In
the following two years the scourge
extended to Sicily, while con .inuing
its ravages among the littorsl aud
riverside population Of the peninsula;
and now another telluric storm has
ragged along the Riviera Levante Q
Ponente, overthrowing towns, engulf-
ing their inhabitants, and leaving a
moral and material ruin behind it
which years will not repair. Well
may the PopOlo Romano say: IF
calamities are so many trials to
streng hen the character, we Italians
bid fair to become the strongest peo-
nile in the world"
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

MISS CARRIE NJ. HEATING, pianist,
may be found st the Gayoso Hotel.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
LIFE'S DAY,

When the day is young and fair,
Birds Sing In the dewy air.
Glinting sunlight everywhere,
Hearts are buoyant, free from care.
Souls are s,ron g and do not dare;
When the day is young and fair.
Sunny hours have climbed to noon,
Chimins one by one their time,
All the 'ays Of life are strewn
With its hopes; alas, so soon,
They have withered, could not bloom
In the sultry heat Of noon.
But the evening comes apace,
With Is soft illumibed face,
Bringing peace 10 hearts of grace,
Hearts that through the dizzy race
Kept on with steady pace
Hearts Of truth, Gods hearts Of grace,
-Stdaeg Nc Lean in the Current.
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

The researches Of Che scientist we're
not Year BY yesr such men as Kill
brew, Stafford, and others. were bring
ing 10 light the vast resources which
lie hidden in the yet undeveloped re.
gions OF Tennessee. Now the glad
tidinga come that we, after years OF
waiting, sre TO have great CO ntral
line Of railroad, reachif 6 from Mem
phis, by way Of the capital city Of the
State, to the foot Of the Allegheny
mountains, traversing and developing
these elements Of wealth and great
ness. 1t Is not my purpose to discuss
the connections OF the Tennessee Mid
lind after 1t leaves Tennessee coil and
crops into
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

SENATOR JONES, Of Arkansas, escorted
thirteen young ladies, schoolmates of his
daughter, to see the President on the I'd.
FOURTEEN persons were sentenced to the
penitentiary at the last term of the Chat
tanooga, Tenn, criminal court. OF these
eleven were moonshiners and three coun'
terfeiters. OF the number one is a woman
from Polk county, sent up for one year for
selling wildcat whisky"
THERE is considerable excitement in
many of the river counties in North Ala
bama over the boom in ore lands.
UNION county, Ark, is threatened with
trouble over the killing Of colored man
named Lincoln, who had insulted LADIES,
whipped white boy with an ak handle,
and whipped and threatened to shoot, on
sight, number of young white men.
GEORGE AYERS and Henry Lindsey
quarreled about an indebtedness of So at
Bowling Green, KY, on the 30th, and the
latter was killed. Lindsey was on horse
back when the quarrel began, and as he
dismounted Ayers seized him by the throat
and quickly drew a knife across it, cutting
it from ear to ear. Ayers fed, but was
soon captured.
TIE principal, if not the only topic of
general interest in political circles in New
York, during the past week, has been the
alleged declaration of President Cleveland
not to allow his name to be used as a can
didate for q second term.
THE reports of drouth throughout the
agricultural districts Of Texas are daily
assuming a more serious aspect. During
the past two weeks many conflicting ac-
counts have been disseminated regarding
the area and amount of rainfall Throughout
the six great cotton districts comprising
the cotton belt.
A BILL granting women school suffrage
has passed both branches of the New
Jersey Legislature. New Jersey is the
fourteenth State to extend this right to
women.
The bodies Of three negroes, brothers,
named Sylvester, were found hanging to a
tree on the roadside near Proctor, w. Va,
on the 1st.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Express Com
pany has cut rates on strawberry ship
ments from Chattanooga, Tenn, to Gin
cinnati from S1.2j to S1.10 Tie Southern
Express Company will meet the rate, and
fruit-growers feel confident the reduction
will continue until the shipments can be
made for 81 per hundred.
Two hundred Mormon proselytes from
Sweden and Denmark passed through
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the lst, bound for
Utah. Nearly half of the emigrants were
young women. They said that Mormon
missionaries had induced them to come e.
this country to get better homes and
promised they would not be required "a
adopt the Mormon faith.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

SERIOUS pension frauds have recently
been discovered in England, and an Off
cial inquiry has been ordered.
THE Swiss village of Sils was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 3Jth.
EXPERTS in chirography are agreed that
the London Times Parnell letter was a
forgery.
MONTANA has declared n quarantine
against cattle from Illinois, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Texas, Vermont and
the District of Columbia.
AN accident occurred on the Northern
Pacific railway on the 3Oth by which W.
o. Breed, of Faribault, MINI, was crushed
to death and seven others were seriously
injured.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY had two sharp
shocks of earthquake on the 1st.
ACTIVE preparations are going forward
at Washington for the National drill.
AL BAUER has resigned as umpire of the
American Baseball Association and John
u. Valentine succeeds him.
SENATOR VEST is reported as suggesting
that Mrs Clevelaud's wishes may infu-
ence the President to run for another
term.
IT is feared that the schooner Louie
O'Neill has gone to the bottom OF Lake
Erie and that her crew Of eight persons
are lost.
| THERE is an enormous increase Of emf
grants from Great Britain for Canada
Australia and the United States.
EX-GOVERNOR CHARLES MAY Of Mich
! gan addressed the American Temperance
Union at Chickering Hall, New York, OF
the 1st.
How. JAMES SHELDON, eX-chief-justice o
the Superior Court of Buffalo, N, Y, dieC
on the lst of cerebro-spinal meningitis
aged sixty-six years.
KING HUMBERT unvailed statue o
Victor Emanuel in Venice on the LIST
There were thousands Of spectators pres
ent, and much enthusiasm was dislayed.
THmTY-EIGHT pedestrians started in
six days. go-as-you-p please at Philadelphia
on the night of the 30.h. Among then
were Vint, Noremac, Hughes and Hart
The prizes aggregate about Sc, 900.
TIE accounts of the British colonial eX
hibltion have been published and show
| balance of Sl56, 175 1t is proposed t
transfer 100000 of this to the Imperia
Institute fund, and with the remainde
settle the deficit Of the Inventions exhi
bition and form reserve fund.
DR.. T. S. DABNEY, Of New Orleans
whose dismissal from clerkship in tn
Pension Office was attempted by certal
Grand Army posts throughout the cour
try, on account, it was said of his havin
been Confederate guard at Anderson
vile prison during the war, has tendere
his resignation to Commissioner Black, t
take effect June 80.
JAY AND LEE MOORE, aged fourteen an
twelve years, and Ira and BERTHE Hotch
kiss, aged eleven and eight, sons Of well
TODD farmers Of South Valley, Catta
raugus County, n Y, went fishing on tn
1st along the Allegheny river. Whe
about rod from the shore the curreu
capsized the boat and all four wer
drowned.
WITHIN short time the United State
steamer Galena, Commander Chester,
expected to arrive at Washington, havin
on board the prehistoric statue secure
from Easter Island by the Mohican, an
but recently transferred to the Galena a
Aspinwall, This piece of work, by an III
known race, is destined for the Smitl
sonian Institute.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

IT develops that William j. Ayers, whc
committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo-,
had been guilty of negotiating forged bills
of lading.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

THE Nova Scotia Legislature has a flood
of grievances of the colony before it, OF
which the members Of the body do dea
of debating.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

IT is intimated that upon the retirement
of Attorney General Garland from the
Cabinet he will take up his residence in
New York
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

COLONEL KERsEY COATES will was pro-
bated at Independence, Mo. on the 29th.
The estate is valued at So 100000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

BIDS were opened and contracts award
ed at Rock Island, H., on the Goth, fol-
$4,000 of Upper Mississippi improve
ments.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

SAMUEL F. PERRY, believed to be one of
the Ravenna CO., train murderers, who
killed Captain Hohen while aiding in the
rescue of Eddy Guerin, the Cleveland fur
robber, is under arrest in New York.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

TIE Vermont Supreme Court has de-
cided that q conspiracy among workmen
to keep others from working is a crime at
common law.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

QUIET was restored in Louisville, KY,
on the 31th, without any further serious
demonstration. One of the negro culprits
claims to be able to prove an alibi, but
little credence is given to his story.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

LORD LANsDowNE has recalled the ac-
ceptance Of his Irish rent compromise and
the tenant troubles are renewed. William
O'Brien now announces that he will posi-
lively invade Canada at once.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

NEW YORK CITY has another official
crookedness sensation, this time in the
tax-assessing department. The property
OF millionaires and railway magnates ap-
pears TO have been systematically over
looked by the assessors.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

NEW ORLEANS interests are combined to
make strong showing before the Inter
State Commerce Commission in favor OF
thorough enforcement of the law.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

IT is thought that the President will re-
peat his last summers trip to the Adiron-
dacks, in which case Colonel and Mrs.
Lamont will be members Of the presi-
dental party
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

A KNIGHTS OF LABOR committee at
Pittsburgh, Pa, have inaugurated a
general boycott against goods of P. D. Ar
mour & Co, Of Chicago.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

THE Vatican has notified France that
General Boulanger's military law which
refuses exemption from military service
to youth or men studying for the priest
hood is an infringement of the concordat.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

RESPONSES from all parts of the coun-
try, called out by recent publications con-
corning the President, show great pre-
ponderance Of feeling among Democrats in
favor of his reelection.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

NJ. SoHNAEBELEs, who has been the
central figure of the latest disturbing in
cident in Europe, was released by the
German authorities and arrived in Paris
on the 3Oth. He was given an ovation
along the route of his journey.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

THE Parnellites continue their policy Of
obstruction in the British Parliament
nearly two hundred amendments being
offered to one clause of the Grimes act.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

ORDERS were issued on the 2Sth to co m
mence the construction of a new ten-inch
gun at the Washington Navy Yard for the
new cruiser Boston. Two ten inch guns
are still at the yard, one nearly completed
and the other we'll under way.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

PETITIONS and memorials, respecting
the troublesome fourth section Of the
Interstate Commerce law, continue to
pour into the Office of the commission.
They are called for short, 'long and short
hnMlsm
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

TIE Pope has sent telegram to En-
peror William and Prince Bismarck,
thanking them for their support Of the
new Prussian Ecclesiastical bill. The
dispatch adds that his Holiness desires
the prosperity of Germany and the Catho-
lie church.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

COLONEL SwITzLER, chief the Bureau of
Statistics, is pressing forward as energet-
ically as possible the work of collecting
materials for his contemplated report in
regard to the commerce of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers, and of the bridges which
cross them
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

TIE general executive board Of the
Knights of Labor, after three days con-
ference with the representatives Of the
stove-molders throughout the country,
have decided that they will not interfere
in the present controversy about the st.
Louis patterns.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

INDIAN AGENT ANDERSON, at Crow
Creek, Oak, telegraphs Indian Commits
sioner Atkins that the people ordered
from the reservation are leaving quietly
They seem, the agent says, pleased to be
relieved from suspense. No trouble is
feared, though the troops are still there.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

CAPTAIN THOMAS PLUNKETT, resident
magistrate Of Cork, has been instructed
by the British Government to keep a close
watch over all circumstances attending
the departure of Mr. William O'Brien on
his way to America TO inaugurate a cam
paign against the Governor General, the
Marquis Of LaRsdowne
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07

THE boYcotted St. Louis stove patterns
were received at the Keely Stove Works
at Columbia, Pa, on the Goth, and the
molders ordered to work on them. All
the molders, fifty in number, immediate
ly dropped their tools and left the foun-
dry. The other departments are at work.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21

market the many woods President
Fordyce says lie in endless pro-
fusion along his line of road.
Add to these good things an airline road
to Fairfield, Crockett and the white oak
aud long leaf pine district contiguous to
the latter city, and Fort Worth has all
the essentials, with her matchless water
supply, to become the only great manu-
featuring center in the state of Texas.
The Fort Worth and Denver is pushing
into magnificent country, which, from
all accounts, has rain when other parts OF
the state are without, and furnishes fine
grass for cattle than any other section.
Rumors come from several sources that
settlers will come in from the North in
large numbers early in the
spring, and that many an
acre will be titled where now the long
horn roams. The only great Panhandle
route has builded wisely in the past and
continues so to do. Before twelve
months have passed the rich coal fields
will be reached and the road will take Its
place with the great trunk lines of the
country. With fair seasons in 1887
the Fort Worth and Denver will
do an immense business, and being fairly
and ecomically managed as it is, besides
being popular, it will continue to be q
piece of property the stockholders will
rejoice in. 1t 8 a common occurrence
these days to hesr experienced railroad
men tell of the. great future certainly in
store for this roai.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21
General Notes.

Enough railroad companies were
chartered in Kansas last year to build
| so, 900 miles of road.
1t is now limited that much of the Gen.
tral Massachusetts Railroad stock that
has recently changed hands has gone in
10 the Boston and Lowell Company's
treasury.
George L. Sands, who has had charge
eff the New Mexico division of the Atchi-
son, is to be superintendent OF the West
ern Division of the Atlantic and Pacific,
now operated by the Atchison.
The Wagner Sleeping Car Company
spent 100000 for new equipment last
year. aud it's shops at Buffalo, costing
Sl,200,OO0, are now in full operation. It's
cars now run over 1000 miles of road.
The Indiana, Bloomington and Western
retaliates on the Pennsylvania lines by
ordering all advertising matter relating
to the Pennsylvania system found about
Indiana, Bloomington and Western Sec
tiors torn down and burned up.
The Baltimore and Ohio has purchased
two of the finest pier properties of the
Delaware river in Philade 'phia. This
brings that company directly in competi-
tion with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for freights in one of the busiest
commercial sections of the city.
The Chicsgo, Burlington and Northern
will extend its road from Galena, ILL.,, to
Shullsburg, Wis, forming 8 junction
with the Monroe branch of the st Paul,
according to we'll authenticated reports,
t. plan being to give the Northern the
privilege of using the st. Paul tracks east
to Milwaukee, and giving the st. Paul
direct connection from the Mineral Point
division of its road to Savannah and the
Mississippi river.
A corps OF engineers with 200 men are
busily engaged in the building OF the
100000 cantilever bridge that is to
span the Hudson at Poughkeepsie and
create direct railway route from the
cotton fields of the South and the coal
fields of Pennsylvania to the busy manu-
featuring centers OF New England The
Union Bridge Company has bound itself
to finish the great structure and have it
open for trains on next New Years day.